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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"The Picture of Dorian Gray"”.
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Warring Discourses in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray has enjoyed a myriad of critical treatment since its first publication. Much of this is due to the paradoxical nature of Wilde's style. In this novel, there is a tension and unique interplay between the discourses of ethics and Decadence as applied to the …
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Irish Celtic folklore in The picture of Dorian Gray
Although critics have studied Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray for nearly one hundred years, no one has examined the author's Irish Celtic heritage in relation to such unanswered questions as the source for the supernatural power that grants Dorian's wish to remain young and creates the …
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The Battle of Good and Evil in The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel published by Oscar Wilde. The novel is considered to be one of the most controversial literary works of the 19th century. In his novel Wilde uses his three main characters to reflect the battle of good and evil that exists in every man. The conflict of …
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The Queer Gothic Hero's Journey in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
<p>This study of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray argues that the novel participates in a Gothic subversion of the archetypal hero’s journey. The novel employs Gothic devices to supplant heroic narremes. As the novel progresses, both Dorian (as a type of hero-character) and the narrative …
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… (Mis)representation and Commodity Culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth" attempts to establish a trans-Atlantic connection between authors Oscar Wilde and Edith Wharton by considering the manner in which each author's respective protagonist relates to art, commodities, …
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Oscar Wilde's Fiction: Views on Life and Art
… Wilde depicts different views on life and art. The stories selected have common themes of wealth (monetary/non-monatary), love, devotion, self-destruction and death:: <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>, "The Happy Prince," "The Devoted Friend," "The Selfish Giant," and "The Rose and the …
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Leisure and Conversation in the Fin de Siècle Novel
This project examines images of leisure in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Golden Bowl, and Howards End. These novels, all of which are set in Britain, depict the rapidly changing post-industrial social landscape at the turn of the nineteenth century. …
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Imagens da morte: um estudo do gênero policial-fantástico em Poe, Wilde e Christie
The mirror has always been related to different symbols, usually connected to self-knowledge and truth. This is due to the fact that this object shows whoever looks oneself in it an image as close to reality as it is possible. On the other hand, the mirror is also associated to mysticism and to the …
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
… and fixation on beauty. However, in the late 19th century, this ancient myth underwent a transformation, taking center stage as a prominent symbol in the emerging Aesthetic Movement. Contrary to warnings present in the myth, this movement celebrated the pursuit of beauty and pleasure …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
‘It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,’ writes Oscar Wilde in his ‘Preface’ to the 1891 book edition of his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. By transferring agency away from the originator to the recipient, Wilde’s aphorism could be considered a late nineteenth-century …
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Making Something Out of Nothing: Asexuality and Narrative
<p>The existence of asexuality, the non-experience of sexual attraction, forces us to reconsider a great deal of received wisdom about sexuality, subjectivity, and narrative, which are all closely bound together in modernity. These discourses, whose interactions we find in distilled form in the …
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Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level
… winning playwright John Patrick Shanley wrote, “Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.” For my Capstone Project, I have compiled my autobiographical poetry, prose, and performance monologues into a theatrical manuscript to be used as the basis for a play. The final …
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Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late 19th-Century French Literature
Collecting, as it was practiced in the 1880s, meant cultivating a comforting and busy, but also disorienting and disconcerting domestic, and mental, interior. This study examines how this meaning was developed in French literature at the end of the 19th century. I consider how collecting …